Re: implicit casts from void* - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> writes:
> > I received on off-list report that commit e2809e3a101 causes an error
> > when building an extension written in C++, since $subject is in a
> > header file. The fix is simply to add an explicit cast, so I plan to
> > push the attached soon.
>
> Hmpfh.  No objection to your patch, but I wonder why
> "headerscheck --cplusplus" didn't find this?  Can we get it
> to do so?

Good question, and it turns out it catches it just fine, but you have
to configure with CPPFLAGS="-msse4.2" (or run the script on a Red Hat
9-ish system).

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John Naylor
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